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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2017-07-04 19:25:02 +0300
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2017-07-06 10:27:09 +0300
commitf35157417215ec138c920320c746fdb3e04ef1d5 (patch)
tree5d8e536fc716419fe3b9474dcacb92c6f055930f /include/linux/string.h
parentc0bc126f97fb929b3ae02c1c62322645d70eb408 (diff)
downloadlinux-f35157417215ec138c920320c746fdb3e04ef1d5.tar.xz
Provide a function to create a NUL-terminated string from unterminated data
Provide a function, kmemdup_nul(), that will create a NUL-terminated string from an unterminated character array where the length is known in advance. This is better than kstrndup() in situations where we already know the string length as the strnlen() in kstrndup() is superfluous. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index 537918f8a98e..3dd944cfe171 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ extern char *kstrdup(const char *s, gfp_t gfp) __malloc;
extern const char *kstrdup_const(const char *s, gfp_t gfp);
extern char *kstrndup(const char *s, size_t len, gfp_t gfp);
extern void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp);
+extern char *kmemdup_nul(const char *s, size_t len, gfp_t gfp);
extern char **argv_split(gfp_t gfp, const char *str, int *argcp);
extern void argv_free(char **argv);